Research Methods
This type of research manipulates an IV and measures a DV while controlling variables.
What is a true experiment?
This type of validity asks if the study’s findings apply to real-life settings.
What is ecological validity?
Participants change behavior because they know they’re being studied.
What is the Hawthorne effect (participant reactivity)?
A detailed investigation of a single individual, group, or event.
What is a case study?
The consistency of a measurement tool across time.
What is test–retest reliability?
When a researcher interprets data to support their expectations.
What is researcher bias?
This method is prone to participant reactivity and observer bias.
What is naturalistic observation?
One limitation of drawing conclusions from correlational data.
What is bidirectional ambiguity?
Psychologists must always ensure this right, even if deception is used.
What is the right to withdraw?
Research that compares existing groups without random assignment.
What is a quasi-experiment?
A scale always adds 5 points to scores. It is ___ but not ___.
What is reliable but not valid?
Collecting both surveys and interviews in the same study demonstrates this strategy.
What is methodological triangulation?
When researchers measure the same construct using different methods, they are using this.
What is triangulation?